Through the cold rain curtain, although they couldn't really see the face of the arsonist girl, they clearly saw that she was wearing the standard uniform of the Luofu maid, and the person who set the fire was a maid. The old lady took two steps closer and glanced at the maid who was blocked by the dandelion, turned around and walked in the direction of the ancestral hall, and ordered: "Why don't you invite the three guests in quickly, and show the guests tea!" Let all the men go in and speak. ”

For a while, everyone flocked into the ancestral hall, and the people opened the cellar in the backyard and set up all the tables, chairs and benches inside, but it was still not enough for everyone to sit, so Luo Baiying and Luo Baihe only got a small futon for bowing as a seat. After the tea was served, someone took a medicine box to deal with the scratches on Qi Chuan's Luo Baiqian's face, Qi Chuan grinned in pain, glared at Luo Baiqiong with his eyes, and snorted: "You are fierce and domineering like this, no one will dare to marry you in your life, and finally become a tiger aunt and an old woman!" ”

The ancestral hall was full of lights and candles, and the fire was flourishing, Luo Baiqiong suspected that the things her father spit on her head had not been cleaned up, so she hid behind Sun and asked her to take her home to change her clothes. Sun has not yet arrested He Angelica, how to move the place, so he comforted his daughter a few words, and he no longer played a strong role for a while. Listening to the old lady's words, I knew that the old lady had a lot of resentment, and it didn't start today. However, Sun is not very frightened, she believes that as long as she holds the old woman's beloved son in her hands, the old woman will sooner or later have a time when she will be exhausted and completely decentralized. The coming days are long, and the old woman is getting older day by day, but she has a lot of time to wait for her to grow old.

Seeing Sun standing aside with his eyebrows lowered, the old lady's psychological balance came back a little, looked at the arson suspect who was tied up, and asked, "Dengcao, Dengcao, did the old body give you the wrong name?" Give you the name of the thing that started the fire, and you'll really run to set it on fire! Where did the Luo family treat you badly, you want to burn the Luo family's ancestral hall to vent your anger? ”

Dengcao shook his head and wept and said: "The old lady spares her life, the old lady is clear, the maid has the courage of a leopard and does not dare to set fire to the ancestral hall, the maid has not even entered the door of the ancestral hall, but burned two strings of paper for licorice in the forest behind, and suddenly someone came up to catch the maid, while shouting to catch the arsonist, while tying me up, the maid is really wronged!" ”

After listening to this, the old lady went to ask the people who caught the lamp grass: "Is what she said true?" ”

Several people looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward and replied, "We did catch her in the back woods, and there was a field of ashes in front of her, and among them was half-burned paper money. ”

Dandelion also stepped forward to intercede and said: "Please let the old lady spare her, the lamp grass is in charge of the fire and candle in Fushouyuan, and she has always been diligent and has no mistakes." This evening, she lamented to me the injustice of licorice's death, saying that she would wait until the tenth day of the first lunar month to worship licorice, and I was afraid that her soul would be dissipated. It is not right for the lamp grass to use the fire candle in vain on the cold stove day, but she can ask the old lady to read the licorice well, and spare the lamp grass this time! ”

The old lady pondered for a moment, then nodded, "That is the case...... That's it, it's just that you can't burn paper behind someone's back before the tenth day of the first month, and when the fire day comes, the old body will naturally properly arrange her afterlife. Hearing this, Luo Chuan Valley's wine woke up a little, and he kept his head shut and didn't squeak. The lamp grass and the dandelion thanked the old lady for her grace and wiped away their tears.

And Qi Chuan and Luo Bai didn't go out all day before, and they didn't know what was going on in the house, so they couldn't help but be curious when they saw this scene, and asked: "Is licorice unjustly dead?" How did she die? Unable to get anyone's answer, he asked suspiciously, "The ancestral hall is on fire, holding a lamp grass, and two words will be exculpitable, looking for a 'tiger aunt', and hiding without asking a word, who is the person who set the fire?" ”

The old lady didn't want to mention the matter of licorice again in front of the guests, so in order to change the topic, she routinely asked Luo Baiqiong: "Sister Qiong, did you put the fire?" What are you doing in the ancestral hall? Of course, she just asked in a formality, and she didn't have to ask to know that her granddaughter wouldn't set fire.

How did you know that Luo Baiqiong opened her mouth and stammered, and suddenly "babbling" couldn't speak clearly, and Sun asked anxiously: "Sister Qiong, what's wrong with you?" What is wrong with you? Luo Chuangu came over to check his daughter's pulse, but he couldn't see anything, but Sun suddenly shouted: "Sister Qiong'er is evil!" It's all caused by Luo Chuanxiong's rag doll, and she can't even speak well, so the ancestral hall is on fire and won't do our Sister Qiong's business! Hurry up and ask the goddess to exorcise evil spirits and beat villains for her! ”

Qi Chuan felt unfair: "Oh, you originally thought that the person who set the fire was Sister Qingyi, and you were going to slap and parade through the streets, but when you saw that the person who set the fire was your daughter, you covered up the big crime of burning the ancestral hall without asking." Later, a maid was arrested as a suspect, and the ancestor forgave her for the crime of tampering with flint, second aunt, you don't have a temper at all, and Fang Cai's cockfighting is like two people, could it be that you are only targeting Sister Qingyi? Why is only Sister Qingyi to be punished so severely as a suspect, is she not as good as a maid? ”

Luo Baiqian was very respectful to Sun in his normal state, so Sun didn't care about Luo Baiqian who was "sick" at first, but now Luo Baiqian is sick and sick, and the coherence between his words makes Sun annoyed with this milky Luo Bai for a while. She sneered: "You junior, it's not the one who openly accuses the elders, where is the tutor in your big house, I am fair and unfair, and I said otherwise, now it is the ancestor who 'decides the case', and the ancestor spoke to spare the lamp grass and the girl, can I beat her hard?" I miss that you are crazy and sick, and I don't care about you, if you talk nonsense and bully your sister, our second room is not a soft persimmon to be manipulated! ”

The eldest lady Luo Baiying suddenly spoke: "I remember just now, the two family members who tied up the second sister said that the gatekeeper only saw the third sister enter the ancestral hall, why did everyone come in for half a day, and only met the second sister alone?" ”

Luo Baiji immediately said: "Xu is the gatekeeper who is wrong, he confused the two of them, the third sister has never been allowed to enter the ancestral hall, how could the gatekeeper let her in?" "Only the descendants of the surname Luo and the daughter-in-law of the family can enter, and the other foreign surnames and concubines are not allowed to approach, this is the old rule that has been followed for many years, so although He Angelica silently burns incense outside the ancestral hall every year to pay tribute to her grandfather's behavior makes the old lady quite moved, and secretly says that she is the most conscientious among the younger generations, but the rules are ironclad, and the old lady cannot let people with foreign surnames enter the ancestral hall. If there had not been a fire today, the three doors would not have been opened to allow everyone and guests to come in and take shelter from the rain.

The family guarding the gate happened to be in the house, and when he heard the words, he stepped forward and replied: "Back to the old lady, back to the second young master, the little one is guarding the door well, and suddenly he fell to the ground with a bend of his legs and stomach, and I only felt that there was a figure floating overhead, and I looked up and saw her silhouette, which was indeed the third lady." The third lady wears a gray feather to the door of the ancestral hall every Spring Festival, how can the little one admit her mistake? The second lady is wearing a green dress, and the two of them are not even dressed differently! ”

"What about her?" Luo Baiji tried his best to whirl around, "Everyone surrounded the ancestral hall, and the people we brought also searched the ancestral hall several times, who found the third sister?" He secretly prayed in his heart that the third sister had just taken advantage of the chaos to run away and go home and lie down. He guessed that she must have been unable to enter the ancestral hall in previous years, and her heart was low, so she sneaked in to worship when no one was around.

Jia Ding insisted: "The little one really saw the third lady, she was alone, she couldn't catch up with her as fast as she went, she was still wearing a thin veil and carrying a burden......"

When this Ding was talking, Ning Yuan suddenly took two steps, and "Hula" opened the green curtain on the side of the ancestral hall, and everyone went to see it, but when they saw that there was a young girl standing behind the green mantle, really as described, wearing a white veil, covered in ash, and carrying a deflated burden in her hand, who was not He Angelica?

Sun immediately resurrected in a state of full blood, returned to the arrogance before being reprimanded by the old lady, pointed at He Angelica with one hand and said, "Look, the real murderer has appeared!" Her own heart is weak, and she hides behind the veil! Ancestor, you call the shots for us, witch crimes, arson, inciting the collective reaction of Taoyao Courtyard, the three crimes are punished together, even if she is a young lady in the house, you have to beat her fifty back flowers and establish rules! Although it is the same punishment on the surface, there are actually three kinds of sticks, the most ruthless "sticks" and the barbs that are as thin as cow's hair that are invisible to the naked eye, and are used on disobedient people to relieve hatred.

Luo Bai was anxious: "Second aunt, you can't convict the third sister with just a few rag dolls, even if the note on it was written by the aunt, it can't prove that the rag doll was made and buried by the aunt, and you can't just come to a 'joint seat' without asking about it, and get angry at the innocent third sister." Even if she sneaks into the ancestral hall, it must have nothing to do with the fire, right, third sister? ”

He Angelica felt the pressure of everyone's substantial eye and eye knife, but it was not as strong as Ning Yuan's presence beside her, she tried her best to isolate the discomfort of Ning Yuan's presence, and replied: "I dreamed of my grandfather during my illness, and I thought about it, so I involuntarily walked to the ancestral hall, I threw a silver coat at the door keeper's feet, and slipped in while he bent down to pick up money, and saw that the door of the ancestral hall was not locked, so I walked in tremblingly to look at the ancestral tablet. Please forgive my ancestors for my sin of breaking into the ancestral hall in violation of the law, as for the 'witch crime' and 'reactionary crime' mentioned by my second aunt, I don't understand what it means, and I can't give an explanation. ”

Sun twisted his lips and sneered: "The facts are there, I can't allow you to quibble, the door of this ancestral hall was originally locked, and the doorkeeper is now taking the key to open the door under everyone's noses, but you are hiding in the ancestral hall early in the morning, and no matter how you get in, you get here in the middle of the night, no matter how you think about it, you feel suspicious, and you don't know what you are a thief and stealing, what is in your baggage?" Come on, open her baggage and take a look! ”

Ding Rongjia immediately took advantage of the power of victory, stepped forward and snatched the small burden in He Angelica's hand, shook away in the face of everyone, and one of the few things that fell one after another pierced the old lady's eyes, making her exclaim: "Cloth, puppet!" It's a witch puppet! ”